The Collaborative International Dictionary
Debouch \De*bouch"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Debouched; p. pr. & vb. n. Debouching.] [F. d['e]boucher; pref. d['e]- (L. dis- or de) + boucher to stop up, fr. bouche mouth, fr. L. bucca the cheek. Cf. Disembogue.] To march out from a wood, defile, or other confined spot, into open ground; to issue.
Battalions debouching on the plain.
--Prescott.
2. (Geog.) To issue; -- said of a stream passing from a gorge out into an open valley or a plain. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] ||
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: debouche)
Usage examples of "debouched".
The path led to a shallow hollow that didn't show from above, which fed into a cave, which debouched into a crevice, which finally gave up and let them into a tunnel down into the ground.
They followed it until it debouched into a medium hall, and followed that until it emptied into a large hall.
The stairs debouched into a dark, murky room, heavy with the smell of mildew, damp earth, and—what?
The tunnel debouched into a wide room before the moonlight played out, an empty cavern of no great dimensions, but with a lofty, vaulted roof, glowing with a phosphorescent encrustation, which, as Conan knew, was a common phenomenon in that part of the world.
It stood at the end of Linda Lane where it debouched onto Flagler Drive.
The far end of the PVC pipe debouched more than a city block away from the house, beside a private dock on Lake Worth.
This would mean that there ought to be an orderly progression from entirely fresh water at the mouth of the Susquehanna, where it debouched into the bay, to entirely salt water at the spot where the bay debouched into the sea.
He entered the Congo River where it debouched into the Atlantic, far south of the Gulf of Guinea.
At Havre de Grace, where the Susquehanna debouched into the bay, there should have been in autumn three parts of salt per thousand.
All this cavalry debouched on the plateau, and it was like the appearance of an earthquake.
When, at two o'clock, the royal carriage, surrounded by a squadron of the body-guard all covered with silver lace, debouched on the boulevard, after having made the turn of the Salpetriere, he appeared surprised and almost alarmed.
Seven or eight soldiers, drawn up in a platoon, had just debouched into the Rue Polonceau.
The Graeco-Roman geographer Strabo left quite a clear description of the large subterranean chamber it debouched into (at a depth of almost 600 feet below the apex of the pyramid).
It was also extremely long, running dead straight for a further 200 feet until it debouched in the single ‘burial chamber’ at the heart of the monument.
After about a further 9 feet the tunnel debouched into the King’s Chamber, a massive sombre red room made entirely of granite, which radiated an atmosphere of prodigious energy and power.